The Metropolitan New Economy Index
"... builds on work we began in The New
Economy Index and the The State New Economy Index, in which we used a new
set of economic indicators to illustrate the structural foundations of
what we and others have called the "New Economy." In the first report, we
tracked the transformation of the U.S. economy along four main lines: the
industrial and occupational mix, globalization, entrepreneurial dynamism
and competition, and the IT revolution. In the second report, we applied a
similar set of indicators to the 50 states. Here, we look at the nation's
top 50 metropolitan regions."

The Regional Institute [Australia]
The Regional Institute
web site is a not-for-profit, educational and
research forum. It publishes information of importance to regional
communities that is, or ought to be, in the public domain.

McGraw Regional
Economic ServiceDRI/McGraw-Hill’s U.S. Regional Economic Service
provides accurate forecasts of key economic
and demographic concepts for 50 states, 310
metropolitan areas, and over 3000 counties. You can use this
service to gain a real understanding of a region’s ability to
expand and compete.
Our U.S. regional models -- which are
integrated with our U.S. macroeconomic forecasts -- provide you
with our most current projections of interest rates, GDP,
inflation, and other economic indicators."

Regional Anti-Growth Initiative Will Boost Neither the Economy, Nor
the Lifestyles, of Coloradans By
Carl Raschke (University of
Denver)
For Immediate
Release April 24, 1997
"As the 1990s head to a close, many Coloradans continue to be
ambivalent
about statewide land development economic growth in
much the same fashion as small town city fathers used to worry about the
proliferation of pool halls. In their hearts they know
economic growth is of the devil, but their heads remind them that the
devil's business is necessary to keep the burgeoning populace
prosperous and the "kids" occupied and out of trouble..."

The European Union is one of the most prosperous economic areas in the
world but the disparities between its Member States are striking, even
more so if we look at the EU's various 250 regions.

Literature:

European online Integration Papers:
An interdisciplinary
workingpapers series
published by ECSA-Austria
ISSN 1027-5193
["the first peer reviewed
online working paper series in the field of European
integration."]

... change is the only true constant in society. If it accomplishes
nothing else, change keeps our lives interesting. The lack of change
would not only be exceedingly boring, it would also put
scholars and scientists out of work. Change gives science a purpose.
For the at the heart of all science is the fundamental
objective of explaining change. In economics and the social
sciences, the task is to explain and understanding a society that is
constantly changing.

Armstrong, Harvey,
"Community regional policy", in J Lodge (ed), The European
Community and the Challenge of the Future, London, Pinter,
1993.

For almost two decades, the analysis of local and regional development
processes has been a central topic of research at the
Institute for Urban and Regional Studies (IIR) of the Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration. At the
beginning, the reorientation from centralized state regional planning -
"top down" - to decentralized regional development
policy - "bottom up" - stood in the foreground (Stoehr/Taylor, 1981).
During the course of the 1980s, research interests
shifted toward an integrated analysis of local and regional development
processes (Muegge/Stoehr, 1987) and then finally to
the analysis of case studies of local development initiatives (Stoehr,
1990a). With this final approach, local actors are the
focal point of research, as they were also in Andreas Novy's dissertation
at IIR (Novy, 1994).

"In a thorough assessment of the strategies, tools, and requirements for
stimulating economic growth and
metropolitan development, the most eminent scholars in the field discuss
... economic development. They review producer services, suburban
business centers, enterprise
zones, technology-based ventures, and industrial incubators...
Is there a nationwide venture capital network? What
are the locational requirements of
firms in high-growth industries? What are the consequences of failed
growth?"

Molle, W. (1996). The Regional Economic Structure of the European Union:
an Analysis of Long-Term Developments. In:
Peschel, K. (ed.). Regional Growth and Regional Policy Within the
Framework of European Integration.
Physica-Verlag.